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ALYATTES , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Lydia (6o9-56o B.c.), the real founder of the Lydian See also:empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the See also:house of the Mermnadae. For several years he continued the See also:war against See also:Miletus begun by his See also:father, but was obliged to turn his See also:attention to the Medes and Babylonians. On the 28th of May 585, during a See also:battle on the Halys between him and See also:Cyaxares, king of See also:Media, an See also:eclipse of the See also:sun took See also:place; hostilities were suspended, See also:peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms. Alyattes drove the See also:Cimmerii (see See also:SCYTHE.%) from See also:Asia, subdued the Carians, and took several Ionian cities (See also:Smyrna, See also:Colophon). He was succeeded by his son See also:Croesus. His See also:tomb still exists on the See also:plateau between See also:lake Gygaea and the See also:river Hermus to the See also:north of Sardis—a large See also:mound of See also:earth with a substructure of huge stones. It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely-cut See also:marble blocks approached by a See also:flat-roofed passage of the same See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone from the See also:south. The See also:sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by See also:early plunderers of the'tomb, all that was See also:left being some broken See also:alabaster vases, pottery and See also:charcoal. On the See also:summit of the mound were large phalli of stone.
See A. von Offers, "Viler See also:die lydischen Konigsgraber bei Sat-See also:des," Abh. Berl. Ak., 1858.
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